Introducing God, the evangelistic course designed to reach 21st century Westerners, is now being used to reach out to overseas guests with limited English.

It may seem counter-intuitive, but a 25 per cent reduction in student workload is set to ensure graduates from Moore College are better trained for front-line ministry than ever before.

Hard hat on, face smeared with dirt, Richard Fortune is taking the notion of an 'underground church literally.

Your topic may well be taboo... But if you preach the word of God properly, then you will deliver a message that is appropriate both to the Christians and non-Christians in your audience.

"Terrorism" is a notoriously difficult word to define, and yet the times in which we live demand a clear view of good and evil. To fight terror is, in George W. Bushs mind, "the inescapable calling of our generation": but this may be more complicated than it seems. After all "terrorist" is a word that once described Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest of secular saints and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Holiness is one of those topics its easy to make people feel guilty about (the other two are prayer and daily Bible reading"¦!) John Chapmans book is nothing like that. He refuses to play the guilt card. Nor does he give you ten easy steps to holiness.

I am not your servant we sometimes say. We dont like to be thought of as a servant; it is a demeaning title below our dignity. We are equals, not servants.

Christian journalist Evan Batten began his Sunday wondering what the morning would bring; by the evening the Network Ten reporter was standing in a Balinese airport hearing the harrowing tales of tourists caught up in the latest bombing.